To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but if so it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door and this dragon is religion.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors since all men are equal but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors for from the time of Jefferson onward the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards not downwards.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.
Admiration of the proletariat like that of dams power stations and aeroplanes is part of the ideology of the machine age.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one particularly if he plays golf.
The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitive society is that they want their children to be a credit to them.